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Bug#416691: Fw: Simplified booting of Debian install CD on IBM PowerPC servers - Suggestion



>Hi Rolf,
>

>Thanks for looking into this. 3.1r5 (aka Sarge r5) is the last stable
>release of Debian, using installation code and setup from 2005. We're
>probably not going to make any more changes to it at this point, as
>we're very close to releasing our new stable version (4.0 aka Etch).
>That should hopefully be more useful for you. Checking, your change to
>yaboot.conf is already merged in in the latest Etch test images, and
>we have a /ppc/bootinfo.txt file with similar information to yours and
>an icon.
>

>Could you try (for example) the image at
>

>and see how that works for you please? We'd love some good feedback at
>this point. :-)
>

>Thanks,
>--
>Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
>"We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could

>ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews

It appears that the right thing to do is just to reject this bug.

I will continue my testing with Etch.

Rolf Brudeseth
rolfb@us.ibm.com

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